Dinner? Theatre? Why Not Both?
We have selected four special dates for you to enjoy a unique dining experience at the student run restaurant The Chefs’ House followed by a performance in the Season of Plays by our theatre students at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts in the Distillery Historic District.
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Available Shows & Dates:
Love’s Labour’s Lost
A joyful banquet of language, flirtation and the first blush of love.
- Dates & Times: Feb 12th and 19th
- 5:30pm Dinner: The Chef’s House 215 King St. E.
- 7:30pm Play: Young Centre for Performing Arts 55 Mill St.
Clérambard
A delightful comedy, sure to entertain, with an array of charming and colourful characters.
- Dates & Times: April 16th and 23rd
- 5:30pm Dinner: The Chef’s House 215 King St. E.
- 7:30pm Play: Young Centre for Performing Arts 55 Mill St.
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BRAND
By Henrik Ibsen
translated by Michael Meyer
Directed by Jennifer Tarver
November 11 – 21, 2009
Brand is about obsession and ultimate sacrifice. The play's main character is a minister looking for his path toward God. In the beginning of the play he believes this calling
is something he must seek on his own, but when a town in need calls on him, he sets aside his original plan and leads the towns' people on their spiritual journey. He asks
his followers to forsake all for the love of God. In order to ask this he must live by his own words and gives up the comforts of the world, losing everything that matters in the material world: the love and comfort of a family, a wife, a child. His ambition, his path toward God, leaves him ultimately alone, full circle, back to his original self. But has he learned anything from this journey through love, loss, and sacrifice? Ibsen's passionate portrait of the struggle
between faith and human will caused a huge stir when it was first published in Scandinavia in 1866. Brand was Ibsen's first commercial and critical success, paving the way for his future successes.
MUNSCH CRUNCH
Based on the stories of Robert Munsch
Directed by Stewart Arnott
December 2 – 12, 2009
George Brown's 23rd annual children's show returns to the delightful world of Robert Munsch! Our theatre-for-young-audience shows
have introduced tens of thousands of Toronto children to the magic of live theatre over the past two decades. The author of 47 books, Robert Munsch's
knack for making young people smile, giggle, and want to read his stories over and over again, has made him Canada's best-selling author. Please
join us we celebrate the charming and infectious world of Munsch!
LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Christopher Newton
February 10 – 20, 2010
Self-denial is in fashion at the court of Navarre where the young King and three of his courtiers solemnly foreswear all pleasures in favor of serious study. But the Princess of France and her all-too-lovely entourage have other ideas, and it isn't long before young love, with its glad eyes, hesitations and embarrassments, has broken every self-imposed rule of the all-male ‘academe'. Shakespeare's boisterous celebration of the claims of young love is a festive parade of every weapon in the youthful playwright's comic arsenal – from excruciating cross-purposes to silly impersonations, drunkenness, bust-ups and pratfalls. A joyful banquet of language, flirtation, and the first blush of love.
CLÉRAMBARD
By Marcel Aymé
Translated by Norman Denny
Directed by Gina Wilkinson
April 12, 14, 16, 21, 23 at 7:30 p.m.,
April 17 at 1:30 p.m., 2010
To save his honor and his chateau, the impoverished Comte de Clérambard condemns his family to slave labor at the knitting machine. Then, one day, a miracle by St. Francis of Assisi transforms him from a proud eccentric into a humble one who loves his “sister spider” at least as much as his wife. Clérambard soon sells his castle and embarks with his family and friends in a wagon on a beggarly good-will tour. A delightful comedy, sure to entertain, with an array of charming and colourful characters.
COCK-A-DOODLE DANDY
By Sean O'Casey
Directed by Todd Hammond
April 10, 13, 15, 17, 20, 22 at 7:30 p.m.
April 15 at 1:00 p.m.
In among the man's world of a Catholic-run Irish small town, Mauthraun, the bog-owner, fears his prodigal and allegedly wanton daughter, Loreleen, has become possessed by a “demon bird”. Indeed his entire household seems to be infected with the creature's presence, from his new wife Lorna to Marion the sassy servant. Saints preserve us, even the whiskey falls under a spell! Regarded by O'Casey as his best play, this comedy about Irish rural life at mid-century symbolizes the struggle between repression and liberty. A mixture of short-sightedness and puritanical zeal (initially the play was regarded as anti-Catholic) prevented this 1949 work from being performed in O'Casey's native Ireland until as recently as 1975. A highly amusing play!
TICKETS
Box Office 416-866-8666
Young Centre for the Performing Arts
55 Mill Street, Building 49 (at the corner of Mill and Cherry Streets)
www.youngcentre.ca
- Adults: $15.00
- Seniors: $10.00
- Students: $6.00
Prices include all taxes and service charges
Rush tickets available for each performance – CASH ONLY
Groups of 10 or more please contact 416 866-8666 ext. 401
Evening performances begin at 7:30 pm and Saturday matinees at 1:30 pm, except I'M SO MUNSCH, which has 1:00pm Saturday matinees.
I'M SO MUNSCH - performance details
Weekday school group shows Nov. 26-28 and Dec. 1-5
Please book through George Brown Theatre School of Performing Arts: 416 415-5000 ext. 2167
Performances at 10:30 am and 1:00 pm
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